Everything's better fried, even rice! Pictures

Everything's better fried, even rice!

Recipe 2: Fried Rice

Ingredients:
Rice
Soy Sauce
Onion
Garlic
Peas
Egg

The How to:
Cook desired amount of rice and allow to cool to at least room temperature. Mince garlic and finely chop onion (about half a small onion). Add oil, garlic and onion to pan on medium heat. Then add rice (and maybe more oil if needed). Heat rice thoroughly. Beat 1-2 eggs. Create a circle in the middle of the pan and pour in the egg. Allow egg to cook like scrambled eggs. Then just before eggs are completely cooked, stir into rice. Add peas and soy sauce to taste. Cook for a few more minutes and you're done!

Suggestions:
You can also add chopped carrots or sliced ham
Instead of scrambling the egg, you can coat the rice in the egg after heating it

When life gives you lemons...cook them with Chicken! Pictures

When life gives you lemons...cook them with Chicken!

Recipe 1: Chicken and Peppers with Peppery Lemon sauce (on rice)

Inspired by Lemony Chicken Breast recipe from "Dining on a Dime Cookbook" by Tawra Kellam and Jill Cooper

Ingredients:

• sliced bell peppers
• strips of Boneless, skinless chicken breast 
• flour
• salt
• pepper
• olive oil
• chicken stock
• lemon juice
• parsley
• rice

The How to:

Cook rice. Saute peppers in oil on medium heat. Then remove from pan. Coat chicken strips in flour/salt/pepper mixture (for every tbsp of flour use 1/2 tsp of salt and 1/2 tsp of pepper). Cook chicken in pan until brown on medium heat. Add peppers and cook until warm on medium heat. Place chicken and peppers on a bed of rice. Add any remaining flour mixture and a small amount of oil to the pan. Stir until thickened. Add chicken stock, 1 or 2 tbsp of lemon juice, and parsley to taste. Stir over medium heat until desired thickness. Pour over chicken and rice. Make sure you make enough for everyone ;)

Suggestions:

Lemon juice gives a strong flavor as the sauce thickens, don't add too much

If you use dried parsley, use less than you would with fresh parsley

Rice can be substituted by pasta

Purpose of this blog

We made a deal with the Devil to create new and delicious recipes for the Summer of 2011. This forced us to search deeper into the world of home culinary arts. This is our story...